African American Odyssey
- From the Library of Congress exhibition, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship

African & Middle Eastern History

Africa Research Central -
This site provides primary source material on African history, including library & museum repositories,
with artifacts, manuscripts and photographs.

Africa South of
the Sahara - Maintained by Stanford University, this site contains informational links on African
countries and regions south of the Sahara Desert, including general topical links as well.

African Voices - From the Smithsonian,
this site presents cross-sections of the history, culture and art of Africa.

Ancient World History

Theban Mapping Project
- Valley of the Kings, a major burial site of ancient Egyptian pharaohs,
is mapped here. Includes royal genealogies, extensive contributions from
Egyptologists with the American University in Cairo.

Egyptian Antiquity Information - Covers the pyramids, pharaohs, religion, astrology of ancient Egypt.
Includes complete text of Egyptian Book of the Dead.

Perseus Digital Library
- An evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient
world and beyond, specifically the Archaic and Classical Greek world.
Presented by Tufts University.

De Imperatoribus Romanis: An
Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors - Details the rulers of the
Roman empire from Augustus to Constantine XI Palaeologus. The encyclopedia
includes an index of all emperors who ruled Rome during its 1500 years;
biographical essays on the emperors; family trees of important dynasties;
significant battles in the history of the empire including descriptions
and maps; maps of the empire itself at different times.

BBC
Viking Programs - Program companion for a BBC television program,
but the site stands on it's own for information.

Asian History

Eurasia.org: This site provides historical, legal, and cultural information on the former Soviet
republics in Central Asia. Also, there is current news and information.

Sources on the Balkan Peninsula
- Academic, political and general information are provided about the Balkan region through this Hellenic
Resources Network site.

Plague and Public Health in
Renaissance Europe - This project involves the creation of a hypertext archive of narratives, medical
consilia, governmental records, religious and spiritual writings and images documenting the arrival,
impact and response to the problem of epidemic disease in Western Europe between 1348 and 1530. A work
in progress.

Latin American History

Avalon
Project: The Cuban Missile Crisis - Yale Law School site presenting the documentary record of the
Cuban missile crisis and its aftermath as well as U.S. policy toward Cuba during the period October
1962 to December 1963. Includes documentation on the Bay of Pigs incident and U.S. courses of action
in response to the unsuccessful invasion.

Native American History

American Indians of the Pacific
Northwest - University of Washington site providing an extensive digital collection of original
photographs and documents about Northwest Coast and Plateau Native American cultures with scholarly
essays. Includes maps showing traditional territories or reservation boundaries.

Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Official government information site on contemporary Native American issues, from laws governing reservations,
tribal land disputes, and American Indian Trust area. Resources for Native American ancestry searching
is included. Explores federal governments relationship with Native American tribes also.

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization
Project - Cooperative effort among the University of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law
Library (NILL), and Native American tribes providing access to the Constitutions, Tribal Codes, and
other legal Native American documents.

Nebraska & Omaha History

Nebraska minor league baseball
- Twenty two Nebraska towns have hosted minor league baseball. Learn about Kearney Kapitalists in the
Nebraska State League of 1910 and the McCook Braves of 1956. This site explores the leagues, teams,
towns and players involved in professional baseball.

To Nebraska in 1857: A Diary of E. F.
Beadle - This site presents the complete text of the 1857 travel diary of Erastus F. Beadle (1821-1894),
a man who spent several months in Omaha during the early territorial days while trying establish the
town of Saratoga, between Omaha and Florence.

Omaha Indian Heritage Project - Omaha culture
is important to the history of the Plains peoples because the Omaha are one of the few Plains tribes
who continued an earth lodge/horticultural adaptation to the Plains even after horses were introduced.
Omaha artifacts are scarce, widely dispersed, and not well catalogued. In an effort to make Omaha artifacts
and photographic images more available, this project is creating an online catalogue of tribal resources
drawn from international sources.

Nebraskastudies.org - This site provides
students, teachers and those interested in Nebraska access to a rich source of facts and viewpoints
about Nebraska and its history. The nine timelines span from pre-1500 to the present day. From each
time line you'll find stories about the lives of people who lived then, plus letters, photographs and
other primary historical source documents. Teachers will find lesson plans and suggested activities.

Nebraska Civil War Veterans - Master
List of Nebraska Civil War Veterans (Blue & Gray) taken from Cemetery lists, 1890 Vet Census (Federal),
1893 NE Census of Veterans (thanks to Lynn) and the Andreas History of NE. This will help you learn
where your veteran appears on NEGenWeb.

Historical Society of Douglas County (Omaha,
Nebraska) - The Douglas County Historical Society is located at Historic Fort Omaha, which is now
the campus of Metropolitan Community College, at 30th and Fort Streets. The mission of the Douglas County
Historical Society is to collect, preserve and present to the public the history of Douglas County.

United States History

Our Documents.gov - This historical site
presents a listing of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration,
and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from
1776 to 1965.ranging from The Bill of Rights (1791) to the Voting Rights Act (1965).